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The plane crashed Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in South Sudan's capital, killing at least 36 people.

The Microsoft CEO, who was speaking at a company event in Mumbai, India, is working to ward off competitors in its new focus area of cloud computing.

Other popular retailers that have announced store closings this year include Macy’s, which said it would close 40 stores, and J.C. Penney.

“Google Calendar is temporarily unavailable," a server error page read Wednesday afternoon.

The move is aimed at keeping up with its competitors in the fast-food industry.

The three-company IPO was the world's biggest this year, and Japan's biggest in two decades. The companies' stocks rose between 15 percent and 56 percent on their first trading day.

A number of petitions are circulating online as employees of big-name stores oppose what has come to be known as the “Black Friday Creep.”

When it discloses figures Wednesday, the operator of the popular social networking site is expected to report major spikes in revenue and earnings per share.

Is it worth buying Apple's new streaming box, or should you hold off?

Forget favorites and stars. Twitter replaced its old star-shape “favorite” tool with a heart, which will be referred to as a “like.”

Michael Dell says his company's $67 billion acquisition of EMC isn't a guaranteed success. But as his company nears $1 trillion in total revenue, he likes his odds.

Late next year, companies will no longer be able to ship PCs with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

More Indians are switching to smartphones, and many first-timers are buying 4G phones, as they become available in the $100 range.

Though its consumers have developed a taste for aspirational brands, the country's retail rules make it a difficult market for Apple to crack.

Google recently launched an app for college students, but so far they don't seem interested.

In many ways, the new streaming device doesn't even live up to its predecessor.

Despite being previously cleared of issues, a Takata airbag in a Nissan car may have injured another passenger last week.

The creative community that grew up on Google's YouTube is now being courted by the likes of Facebook and Verizon.

TV personality Al Roker tells IBT at Stream Con NYC what apps he'll use for Halloween and what he thinks about live-streaming's future.

Microsoft is said to be planning an update that will let users move work among their mobile devices and desktops.

Researchers cautioned driverless cars still have a long way to go before full safety ramifications are understood.

After two developers put the pressure on the broadcasting giant, the BBC has reversed course.

The deal was one of several agreements signed Thursday during German Chancellor Angela Merkel's trip to Beijing.

Latest update adds support for iPhone 6S's 3D Touch, which will make Snapchat even snappier.

The big exception is the company's TV channel, which will license forecast data from IBM.

Online marketplace Poshmark branches out beyond secondhand-fashion e-commerce, but it's up against some pretty stiff competition for shoppers’ attention.

The Facebook CEO vehemently defended his Internet.org project at an event in New Delhi Wednesday.

The microblogging site has been releasing more products and securing more partnerships, but new users just aren't biting.

Under CEO Jack Dorsey, the company has restructured its product and engineering teams, trimmed payroll and focused on user-driven features like Moments.